Thursday, March 16, 2006

Ars Nova - Ars Nova (1968)

Great and much underrated US '60's psych mixing atmospheric acid rock with classical and medieval music. An East Coast experimental, avant-garde band, in 1968 they made this their debut album which is now taken from the original analog Elektra stereo master tapes. The diverse epic features the heavy fuzz guitar psych masterpiece "And How am I To Know" (which sounds spookily like a track by The Third Power) and Zig-zags through an array of brass-laced avant-rock/psych originals such as 'Fields Of People' and Richard Strauss' 'Zarathustra', as well as mini-medieval psych gems such as the opening "Pavan for my lady". ars nova was anything but three chords and a cloud of dust and the brainy NYC combo scored its first gig of note in 1968, opening for the Doors at the Fillmore East. Freak Emporium

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4 comments:

smobey said...

i can't make any password variation work. what is it in plain text.
i wore out my vinyl copy of this. an awesome lp for its time and a definite forerunner to all symphonic rock.
thanks!

Hazy Dave said...

Password? Exactly this - http://ezhevika.blogspot.com/ - don't forget the slash at the end - has worked on other files, though I bought this one on CD my own self last year, and so have not downloaded this particular morsel... Being a big fan of the Move's Shazam for over 30 years, it was very cool to finally hear the excellent original version of "Fields Of People". I first heard it on an mp3 downloaded perhaps somewhat extra-legally, it probably goes without saying. Can music lovers be prevented from connecting with one another even under threat of draconian penalties? Stay tuna'd...

Anonymous said...

If you are a MAC user you will regularilly have problems with opening rars - just like I do, especially w. OS X.
Too sad...

Anonymous said...

http://www25.zippyshare.com/v/RzaCcB3q/file.html